Smart skin patch releases blood thinners in closed-loop control system
Prevents both thrombosis and spontaneous hemorrhaging; no need for patients to test blood on a regular basis
Caltech scientists use bacterial protein to merge silicon and carbon and create new organosilicon compounds
Could lead to products that are more environmentally friendly and potentially much less expensive; raises questions about alien lifeforms
Google’s new multilingual Neural Machine Translation System can translate between language pairs even though it has never been taught to do so
Machine translation breakthrough has been implemented for 103 languages
New unique brain ‘fingerprint’ method can identify a person with nearly 100% accuracy
Could provide biomarkers to help researchers determine how factors such as disease, the environment, and different experiences impact the brain and change over time
